Last month I signed up for my own domain name. Yes. It may sound a little silly and somewhat narcissistic, but I have good reasons for that.
In the nutshell, I’m getting serious about writing.
Here’s the list of the things I have done so far to enhance my writing:
| No | Item |
| 1 |
Consolidate my blogs |
| 2 |
Create a separate blog for my work related writings |
| 3 |
Get a mobile device with qwerty keypad and all the bells and whistles for writing on the go |
| 4 |
Get an SLR digital camera to take quality pictures |
| 5 |
Set up my own domain name |
| 6 |
Get a laptop PC |
| 7 | Download and install a blog application to enable offline writing |
I have gotten almost everything I need. I am running out of excuses for not writing. The only missing ingredients is the will to make writing a habit, instead of just an occasional hobby.
My long term goal is to compile bits and pieces from my blogs into a book. Sounds cliché? Maybe. But that is how great writers got started.
Charles Dickens did not start by writing anything thick. He started his writing career as a court reporter. He took time to write sketches, simply to hone his writing skills. He wrote weekly installments for newspapers. By popular demands, the installments were published into a book. Then he began writing books. The rest is history.
If I don’t intend to be at least a good writer, there is no point in getting started at all. In fact, if I don’t intend to be good at anything that I do, there is no point in doing it in the first place.
